Recent content by mrmupton

Hi all, thanks for your continued help through this. So I found that one cylinder has a fouled spark plug that looks like it has wet oil on it. When I recently did an oil change both the plugs were fine looking. This is after running for an hour or so afterwards. The mower stopped I assumed...

Thanks.. sounds like it could also be breather tube? I changed the fuel pump end of last season. It runs fine as long as it is not under load. The smoking + loss of power seems to suggest that? Never replaced breather assembly… sounds like a pain?

The only place i saw build up was around the rod that goes into the engine below the carburetor. But would that cause the engine to not run well? I couldn’t tell if it was leaking there though. Is that the governor rod?

Opened up the air intake and it looks pretty clean, no debris or build up.

I'm using 20W40 from the oil change kit. I'll clean it out as see if it helps.

I just changed the oil 20/40 kawasaki oil, oil filter, air filters, spark plugs and fuel filter. Ran fine for an hour then ran out of fuel. After restarting with E10 in engine it was losing power and not cutting with the deck on. Changed the fuel back to non-ethonol (siphoned out) and it was...

Hi, My Hustler Fastrak SuperZ 52” with a Kawasaki engine (1000 hours) is burning oil after a hard days work. It got real bad when i was cutting some thick grass and I saw grass covered the air cooling fan so it was definitely starting to over-heat. It only smokes when hot toward the end of...